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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers, for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband? (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In ancient days, the most celebrated precept was, know thyself; in modern times it has been supplanted by the more fashionable maxim, know thy neighbor, and everything about him (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, you are giving a reason for it; but that will not make it right. You may have a reason why two and two should make five; but they will still make but four (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man’s conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; so esteem without love is languid and cold (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold (Samuel Johnson Quotes)